Meditations: When Tradition Becomes Complicit with Tyranny
American journalists experienced the darkness of Trump's America firsthand at the Correspondents' Dinner, as they were forced to confront the reality of the nation's... Read more.
Meditations: Revisiting Where Man Went Wrong
Anthropologists David Graeber and David Wengrow offer a Rousseauian view of human history in their book, "The Dawn of Everything", arguing that humans were not always... Read more.
Meditations: Why I’m Not a Buddhist
Despite its lack of a creator, Buddhism's emphasis on tradition and ritual has hindered its ability to make a difference in America, as it has failed to address... Read more.
Meditations: In Quieting the Chatter of Human Language, One Hears the Languages of Animals
A man experienced two extraordinary encounters with jays and a coyote, which led him to question the species barrier between humans and animals and the intelligence... Read more.
Meditations: Agency Is Bullshit, in Humans or Chatbots
AI chatbots are replicating the human ego and projecting it onto the universe, leading to absurdities and false premises about "agency" and the human self.... Read more.
Meditations: What Does It Mean to Collaborate at the Core of Consciousness?
A group of young men and women, inspired by the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, experienced a unique form of dialogue in which they were able to think together as... Read more.
Meditations: In Surrender of Memory
Through undirected observation, one can become free from the tyranny of conditioning and experience direct awareness of beauty and love, as well as a renewed brain... Read more.
Meditations: Confront Power Per Se, Not Just the Powers that Be
Christian nationalists like Pete Hegseth are filling leadership positions in the second Trump administration, and to end violence and oppression, power must be deconstructed... Read more.
Meditations: Humans Don’t Matter, but the Human Brain Does
Through meditation, one can experience a state of "aesthetic stasis" or "samadhi" where memory, self and the known are obliterated, allowing for direct perception,... Read more.
Meditations: We Don’t Need to Leave the Planet to See and Feel the Earth
The Artemis II mission is a gender-balanced and Earth-centered mission, but its main claim to fame is taking it just a few hundred miles further than Apollo 13,... Read more.